Following the deadline of voting by the entire contender for an article competition organised by the press and public relations division of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), a reporter with the Peoples Daily, Mohammed Kandi, has emerged winner of the competition.
The results showed that Kandi’s article titled “NEMA and response to emergencies in 2011”, among two others, scored over 40 per cent of the total votes cast, putting it as the overall winner of the contest.
NEMA’s head of press and public relations division, Yushau A. Shuaib, who presented to the winner a Blackberry smart phone prize, urged the journalists to remain focused, determined and hardworking in their duties.
Shuaib, who described the achievement as “deserving”, noted that, “the entire process of voting which was conducted online by the entire contestant was very transparent.”
“Although the gift is not commensurate with the effort most of you had put in; it’s a way of encouraging you and many others outside journalism to remain hardworking in all their dealings,” he said.
He recalled that the entire disaster reporters covering NEMA were directed to do a feature that encapsulates the agency’s year 2011 activities.
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